What laptop do you recommend?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:10:56 -0500 (EST)
> From: Wesley Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> 
> > That seems pretty bad. What kind of graphics chip is on that machine?
> > I'm using an old Thinkpad R40 with a Radeon Mobility 7500 Chip (rv200)
> > and that gives me 2000fps together with a first generation Pentium-M 1300.
> 
> It's one of thie NVidia Quadro chips with 128mb ram and up to another 128 
> shared. I haven't tried any tweaks at all with the config, the NV driver 
> doesnt even officially recognize the card, but it does load.
> 
> >
> > Wesley Morgan wrote:
> >> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> >>
> >> I haven't tried any sleep states yet. X runs at the native 1024x768 and
> >> glxgears runs at about 760-790 FPS when one of the two cores is occupied
> >> with something else and 815 when both are idle.
> >>
> >
> >

Are you using the nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig ports? These will
normally provide much better performance than the xorg driver.

You need to add nvidia_load to your /boot/loader.conf file and then run
nvidia-xconfig to update your xorg config file.
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